[Mike Schroeder]

Originally posted by nerdcool64
Personally, I think a good system would be that you have to win something at the regional level to go to nationals. Anything from Team Spirit to Regional Champions to Chairmans award qualifies you for Nats. No more even or odd stuff.

what happens when teams goto multiply regionals, win more than one award, they are taking away other teams chances. In the past it was always who ever could register in time, any team #, no matter who won, What people fail to realize is as our #'s increase, this could be the only fair way to give everyone an equal chance, only going to nats every other year is fine, it gives other teams a chance to compete, with only reagional award winners, you are give possibly the same teams over and over again a chance to compete. and in cases like this year, all those last week reagional award winners would have next to no chance to come up with money for nats to travel, is that fair, ask for example 102, and 340 who sat at home, cause they won the J&J Mid-Atlanitc Regional, and only had 4 days to come up with the money and failed to do so, but had it been 2004, instead of 2003 then they would have already have been registered, and been able to compete, So while i ramble on and on, i hope people begin to see why even/odd is fair instead of winning awards